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Nighat Iqbal KHAN

(1932 - 2009)

Nighat Iqbal was born on 25 Ramadan-ul-Mubarak 1350 or 1351 (1932 or 1933;
the official documents carry the date 8 January 1935)
in the Nawabdom of
Kholapur
(a village, PIN Code: 444802, in
AmraotiDistrict,
Maharashtra,
Map to Kholapur),
India
(National Emblem).
She was the youngest child of Mohammadi Begum and
Nawab Mohammed AbdulQuader of
Kholapur.
They called her by the name Khadija, in fond memory of her father's eldest sister.
Nighat Iqbal's father was Nawab Mohammed AbdulQuader
(died in 1943, Picture) of
Kholapur,
who was the son of Nawab Mohammed Abdul GhaniSaheb Saudagar (died in 1897, 1315 Hijri,
Picture) of
Kholapur.
The Father & Son were very progressive and were involved in numerous developmental activities.
They established a Madrasa (School of Oriental Studies, Persian, Arabic and Islamic Studies)
and a Masjid (Mosque); High School for Boys and a Separate High School for Girls.
They also established a Hospital and the Post Office
(Pin Code:
444802).
All these have grown
over time and even today are the principal institutions of the region.

Nighat Iqbal had four brothers and three sisters. They are in order:
Khurshid Begum (died in December 1994), Bilquis Begum (died in 1995),
Abdul Huq (Picture,
died in September 1985), Abdul Khaliq
(Picture-1 and
Picture-2,
died on Saturday the 19 November 2011, 23 Zilhijjah 1432),
Abdul Jaleel (died in June 1998), Akhtar Begum (died in July 2005) and
Abdul RafeeqZafar
(Picture-1 and
Picture-2, died in July 2011).

Abdul Jaleel was blessed with one daughter, Nazish Begum. She is married to
Abdul Samad Zia (Picture).
They are blessed with two sons:
Abdul Ghani (Picture) and
Umair (Picture); and one daughter:
Maseera. Maseera is married to
Dr. Irshad Ahmed (Picture).

Khurshid Begum was married to Syed Iqbal Ilyas (died in May 1990).
They had two sons: Syed Iqbal Ilyas (alias Mohsin) and Syed Fazal Ilyas (alias Shaheen); and
three daughters: Farhat Ilyas (alias Ranu), Nusrat Ilyas (alias Shahzadi, died in 1998), and
Shaukat Ilyas (alias Naushaba).
Syed Iqbal Ilyas married Rafat Gilani, daughter of Professor Mazhar Ahsan Gilani (Professor of Economics)
and the niece of the renowned Islamic Scholar,
Manazir AhsanGilani.
Both were professors at Osmania University
(OU,
Logo), Hyderabad.
Rafat Gilani's younger brother,
Khurshid Ahsan Gilani is
an accomplished Cricketer and plays for the
Andhra Bank (Logo).
Syed Fazal Ilyas married Zubaida.
All the three daughters were married to doctors.
Farhat Ilyas married Dr. Abdul Qayyum Khan, from
Jhansi.
Nusrat Ilyas married Dr. Shujauddin Najmuddin Khatib from Mumbai, now settled in Lincoln, UK.
Shaukat Ilyas married Dr. Arif Hanif from
Aligarh.
Shaukat Arif Hanif is
professor of
Forensic in
Aligarh Muslim University
(AMU,
Logo),
Aligarh.
Dr. Arif Hanif
died on Tuesday the 28 May 2013 (18 Rajab 1434).

Bilquis Begum was married to Yusuf Ahmed Khan, the Patel of Pedi,
in Pusad, Taluka, in
the YavatmalDistrict,
Maharashtra,
India.
They had seven sons: Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, Ashwaq Ahmed Khan, Shayaq Ahmed Khan,
Nazi Ahmed Khan, Siddique Ahmed Khan, Jameel Ahmed Khan, and Farooq Ahmed Khan; and
one daughter Shahnaz Khanam. Shahnaz Khanam was married to Syed Farookh Hussain Khatib
(alias Humayun, died in 2000), who was the son of Dr. Syed Mahmood Hussain Khatib.
Professor Syed Mahmood Hussain Khatib was a renowned zoologist and the head of the
Department of Zoology
at Nagpur University
(Logo),
Nagpur.
Ashwaq Ahmed Khan married the renowned Urdu writer,
WajidaTabassum
(Picture).
Wajida Tabassum was the grand-daughter of the sister of Nawab Mohammed Abdul Quader.
She died on Tuesday the 07 December 2010 (01 Muharram 1432) in Mumbai/Bombay.
Shayaq Ahmed Khan is blessed with one son,
Salman Ahmed Khan
and two daughters.

Akhtar Begum was married to Muzammil Ahmed Khan.
They had one son Humayun Ahmed Khan and two daughters: Shahla Khanam and
Ghazala Khanam (alias Shunnu).

Nighat Iqbal Khan had a medically challenging time. During the 1950's it took the
Medical World (spread out in several cities) three long years to figure out
the cause of the severe and chronic abdominal pain: Appendicitis.
Nighat Iqbal Khan completely recovered from breast cancer in 2006.
She was operated and treated by
Dr.KamranAhmedKhan
(Picture)
at the
RahejaHospital,
Mumbai (Bombay),
INDIA. Kamran A Khan
(Picture)
is an accomplished Surgical Oncologist.
It is to be noted that Kamran Khan is the son of Aijaz Ahmed Khan, the younger brother of
Hamid AhmedKHAN. She recovered completely from the
Nuclear Grade 2
breast cancer.
In the last seventeen months of her life she was hospitalized seven times in the
Sultan Qaboos Hospital,
Salalah,
SultanateofOman.
This was for her weak heart condition. The last month of her life
she was semi-conscious and was fed by the Gastro Nasal Tube,
Sultan Qaboos Hospital.
She breathed her last on 7:12 PM
just after Maghrib (sunset) on Saturday the 23 May 2009 (29 Jumadi-al-Awwal 1430, had just begun)
with her son,
Farooq AhmedKhan
(alias Zaki) by her side.
The end was smooth without any medical interventions (respirators, ventilators, lung machines etc.).
On Monday the 25 May 2009 (30 Jumadi-al-Awwal 1430), she was laid to rest in the Qabrastan/Makbara (Graveyard)
close to the Masjid Zaweyah
(see the Map)
on the 23 July Street of
Salalah.